Karl Raudsepp Hearne is a film director and screenwriter, whose
feature directorial debut Touched premiered on the film festival
circuit in 2017 before being released theatrically in 2018.Raised in
Montreal and Dublin, Ireland, he studied at McGill University before
pursuing a doctorate at Nanjing University. He later returned to
Montreal, where he spent a year studying film at Concordia
University.His short film Song, a Chinese ghost story with dialogue
predominantly in Mandarin, received the Prix Fasken-Martineau in 2003,
and received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Short Film at the 5th
Jutra Awards.Following his 2007 short film Stuff, he took some time
away from film to help a friend start a business, but found that he
was wrapped up in that business for much longer than he had planned to
be. When he decided to return to film in the mid-2010s, he quickly
secured funding from Telefilm Canada to make Touched.
feature directorial debut Touched premiered on the film festival
circuit in 2017 before being released theatrically in 2018.Raised in
Montreal and Dublin, Ireland, he studied at McGill University before
pursuing a doctorate at Nanjing University. He later returned to
Montreal, where he spent a year studying film at Concordia
University.His short film Song, a Chinese ghost story with dialogue
predominantly in Mandarin, received the Prix Fasken-Martineau in 2003,
and received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Short Film at the 5th
Jutra Awards.Following his 2007 short film Stuff, he took some time
away from film to help a friend start a business, but found that he
was wrapped up in that business for much longer than he had planned to
be. When he decided to return to film in the mid-2010s, he quickly
secured funding from Telefilm Canada to make Touched.
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